Tropes and Schemes

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

Repitition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence

Question 2

allusion

Answer 2

brief references to a person, event, or place, real or fictionous, or to a work of art

Question 3

anaphora

Answer 3

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

Question 4

antimetabole

Answer 4

repetition of words in reverse order

Question 5

antithesis

Answer 5

opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a blanced or parallel construction

Question 6

asyndeton

Answer 6

omission of conjuctions between coordinate phrases, cluases, or words

Question 7

cumulative sentence

Answer 7

sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, then builds and adds on

Question 8

hortative sentence

Answer 8

sentence that echorts, advises, calls to action

Question 9

imperative sentence

Answer 9

used to command, enjoin, implore or entreat

Question 10

inversion

Answer 10

inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)

Question 11

juxaposition

Answer 11

placement of 2 things closely together to empasize camparisons or contrasts

Question 12

metaphor

Answer 12

one thing is another to explain comparison

Question 13

metonymy

Answer 13

using a single feature to represent a whole

Question 14

oxymoron

Answer 14

paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Question 15

parallelism

Answer 15

similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Question 16

periodic sentence

Answer 16

main clause is withheld until the end

Question 17

zeugma

Answer 17

use of 2 different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings